Another GP bashing in the Daily Mail. The DOH are trying to claw back the money that they have given to GPs in the new contract, they want to cap it. I hear MPs want a pay rise to bring their basic salary in line with that of a GP, but they get as much again in their expenses, so they already earn enough. I suppose they are providing some kind of 'public service' by taking our taxes and wasting them on war. I don't know many other businesses where there are caps on salaries, do they do this in the city? (they might do, I don't know). And why should we work out of the hours of 8 to 6? There is OOH cover in place, so there is no responsibility to open for longer hours. Hospital doctors work those hours. If you are ill enough to need the doctor maybe you can take some time off work to go. I wouldn't mind working until 8 one day or so a week though. Anyhow, the government are ensuring this will happen by taking money away if it doesn't. It is annoying that GPs are persistently painted in a money-grabbing & lazy light when this is plainly not true in almost all cases. Enough politics.
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Then GPs should strike. Problem is there will be a whole host of Polish/Romanian etc. doctors willing to take their place.
Public sector workers always get screwed one way or another. Ride the crest of the GP salary wage and when they tighten the noose move into private work / medicals / GIPSI clinics etc for the money.
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